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2015-08-05tools: hv: add a python script lsvmbus to list VMBus devicesDexuan Cui
By default lsvmbus lists all the devices in the VMBus. With -v or -vv, more information is printed, including the VMBus Rel_ID, class ID, device ID and which channel is bound to which virtual processor, etc. Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-24Drivers: hv: fcopy: full handshake supportVitaly Kuznetsov
Introduce FCOPY_VERSION_1 to support kernel replying to the negotiation message with its own version. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Tested-by: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-24Drivers: hv: vss: full handshake supportVitaly Kuznetsov
Introduce VSS_OP_REGISTER1 to support kernel replying to the negotiation message with its own version. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Tested-by: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-24Tools: hv: vss: use misc char device to communicate with kernelVitaly Kuznetsov
Use /dev/vmbus/hv_vss instead of netlink. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Tested-by: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-24Tools: hv: kvp: use misc char device to communicate with kernelVitaly Kuznetsov
Use /dev/vmbus/hv_kvp instead of netlink. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Tested-by: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-03-25hv: hypervvssd: call endmntent before call setmntent againVaughan Cao
If freeze fails, vss_operate will re-enter itself to thaw. But it forgets to call endmntent() before it recalls setmntent() again. Signed-off-by: Vaughan Cao <vaughan.cao@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-03-25tools: hv: fcopy_daemon: support >2GB files for x86_32 guestDexuan Cui
Without this patch, hv_fcopy_daemon's hv_copy_data() -> pwrite() will fail for >2GB file offset. The current char-next branch is broken and this patch fixes the bug. Signed-off-by: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-01-25Tools: hv: do not add redundant '/' in hv_start_fcopy()Vitaly Kuznetsov
We don't need to add additional '/' to smsg->path_name as snprintf("%s/%s") does the right thing. Without the patch we get doubled '//' in the log message. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-01-25Tools: hv: address compiler warnings for hv_fcopy_daemon.cVitaly Kuznetsov
This patch addresses two types of compiler warnings: ... warning: unused variable .fd. [-Wunused-variable] and ... warning: format .%s. expects argument of type .char *., but argument 5 has type .__u16 *. [-Wformat=] Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-01-25Tools: hv: address compiler warnings for hv_kvp_daemon.cVitaly Kuznetsov
This patch addresses two types of compiler warnings: ... warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare] and ... warning: pointer targets in passing argument N of .kvp_.... differ in signedness [-Wpointer-sign] Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-01-25Tools: hv: remove unused bytes_written from kvp_update_file()Vitaly Kuznetsov
fwrite() does not actually return the number of bytes written and this value is being ignored anyway and ferror() is being called to check for an error. As we assign to this variable and never use it we get the following compile-time warning: hv_kvp_daemon.c:149:9: warning: variable .bytes_written. set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable] Remove bytes_written completely. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-01-12tools: hv: kvp_daemon: make IPv6-only-injection workDexuan Cui
In the case the host only injects an IPv6 address, the dhcp_enabled flag is true (it's only for IPv4 according to Hyper-V host team), but we still need to proceed to parse the IPv6 information. Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Reviewed-By: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-01-12tools: hv: Makefile: Add hv_fcopy_daemon to MakefileMatej Muzila
hv_fcopy_daemon is not mentioned in Makefile so it must be built manually. Add hv_fcopy_daemon to Makefile. Signed-off-by: Matej Muzila <mmuzila@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-27tools: hv: ignore ENOBUFS and ENOMEM in the KVP daemonDexuan Cui
Under high memory pressure and very high KVP R/W test pressure, the netlink recvfrom() may transiently return ENOBUFS to the daemon -- we found this during a 2-week stress test. We'd better not terminate the daemon on the failure, because a typical KVP user will re-try the R/W and hopefully it will succeed next time. We can also ignore the errors on sending. Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-27Tools: hv: vssdaemon: skip all filesystems mounted readonlyVitaly Kuznetsov
Instead of making a list of exceptions for readonly filesystems in addition to iso9660 we already have it is better to skip freeze operation for all readonly-mounted filesystems. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-27Tools: hv: vssdaemon: report freeze errorsVitaly Kuznetsov
When ioctl(fd, FIFREEZE, 0) results in an error we cannot report it to syslog instantly since that can cause write to a frozen disk. However, the name of the filesystem which caused the error and errno are valuable and we would like to get a nice human-readable message in the log. Save errno before calling vss_operate(VSS_OP_THAW) and report the error right after. Unfortunately, FITHAW errors cannot be reported the same way as we need to finish thawing all filesystems before calling syslog(). We should also avoid calling endmntent() for the second time in case we encountered an error during freezing of '/' as it usually results in SEGSEGV. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-07tools: hv: introduce -n/--no-daemon optionVitaly Kuznetsov
All tools/hv daemons do mandatory daemon() on startup. However, no pidfile is created, this make it difficult for an init system to track such daemons. Modern linux distros use systemd as their init system. It can handle the daemonizing by itself, however, it requires a daemon to stay in foreground for that. Some distros already carry distro-specific patch for hv tools which switches off daemon(). Introduce -n/--no-daemon option for all 3 daemons in hv/tools. Parse options with getopt() to make this part easily expandable. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-07Tools: hv: vssdaemon: ignore the EBUSY on multiple freezing the same partitionDexuan Cui
If a partition appears mounted more than once in /proc/mounts, vss_do_freeze() succeeds only for the first time and gets EBUSY (on freeze) or EINVAL (on thaw) for the second time. The patch ignores these to make the backup feature work. Also improved the error handling in case a freeze operation fails. Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-07-09Tools: hv: fix file overwriting of hv_fcopy_daemonYue Zhang
hv_fcopy_daemon fails to overwrite a file if the target file already exits. Add O_TRUNC flag on opening. Signed-off-by: Yue Zhang <yuezha@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-04-16Tools: hv: Handle the case when the target file exists correctlyK. Y. Srinivasan
Return the appropriate error code and handle the case when the target file exists correctly. This fixes a bug. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.14] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-18Drivers: hv: Implement the file copy serviceK. Y. Srinivasan
Implement the file copy service for Linux guests on Hyper-V. This permits the host to copy a file (over VMBUS) into the guest. This facility is part of "guest integration services" supported on the Windows platform. Here is a link that provides additional details on this functionality: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn464282.aspx In V1 version of the patch I have addressed comments from Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> and Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> In V2 version of this patch I did some minor cleanup (making some globals static). In V4 version of the patch I have addressed all of Olaf's most recent set of comments/concerns. In V5 version of the patch I had addressed Greg's most recent comments. I would like to thank Greg for suggesting that I use misc device; it has significantly simplified the code. In V6 version of the patch I have cleaned up error message based on Olaf's comments. I have also rebased the patch based on the current tip. In this version of the patch, I have addressed the latest comments from Greg. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-15Tools: hv: vssdaemon: Ignore VFAT mounts during the Freeze operationK. Y. Srinivasan
If the guest has a FAT file system mounted, skip it during the FREEZE operation. With this change we can support host initiated backup of the guest even when the guest may have FAT file systems mounted. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-15Adding makefile for tools/hvBjarke Istrup Pedersen
Currently, there is no makefile for the Hyper-V tools. This patch adds the missing makefile, and adds it to the main tools makefile. Signed-off-by: Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-09Tools: hv: remove inclusion of linux/types.hOlaf Hering
With very old libc headers the inclusion of sys/types.h causes conflicts with linux/types.h. Since the latter is not required anyway, remove it from the source files. If any of the headers really needs linux/types.h it has to include it itself. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26Tools: hv: use single send+recv bufferOlaf Hering
send_buffer is used only once during registration. To reduce runtime memory usage reuse the recv_buffer for registration. Also use NLMSG_LENGTH instead of NLMSG_HDRLEN to take alignment into account. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26Tools: hv: cache FQDN in kvp_daemon to avoid timeoutsOlaf Hering
kvp_daemon does some operations which take an unpredicable amount of time. In addition the kernel driver gives the kvp_daemon a 5 second timeout to respond to message from the host. If an operation such as getaddrinfo takes a long time and the timeout triggers then netlink errors occour. As a result of such errors the daemon just terminates and the service becomes unavailable. Idendifying and fixing these shortcomings in the kernel-userland communication protocol will be done in separate patches. This change fixes just one obvious timeout bug. Update kvp_get_domain_name to not return a value, better diagnostic for the consumer of the hostname string, remove trailing newline in error case, use snprintf to not overrun output buffer, get hostname only once and return the cached result. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-12Tools: hv: use full nlmsghdr in netlink_sendOlaf Hering
There is no need to have a nlmsghdr pointer to another temporary buffer. Instead use a full struct nlmsghdr. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-12Tools: hv: correct payload size in netlink_sendOlaf Hering
netlink_send is supposed to send just the cn_msg+hv_kvp_msg via netlink. Currently it sets an incorrect iovec size, as reported by valgrind. In the case of registering with the kernel the allocated buffer is large enough to hold nlmsghdr+cn_msg+hv_kvp_msg, no overrun happens. In the case of responding to the kernel the cn_msg is located in the middle of recv_buffer, after the nlmsghdr. Currently the code in netlink_send adds also the size of nlmsghdr to the payload. But nlmsghdr is a separate iovec. This leads to an (harmless) out-of-bounds access when the kernel processes the iovec. Correct the iovec size of the cn_msg to be just cn_msg + its payload. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-05Tools: hv: check return value of system in hv_kvp_daemonOlaf Hering
hv_kvp_daemon.c: In function 'main': hv_kvp_daemon.c:1441:8: warning: ignoring return value of 'daemon', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-05Tools: hv: in kvp_set_ip_info free mac_addr right after usageOlaf Hering
... to simplify error path in upcoming changes. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-02Tools: hv: check return value of daemon to fix compiler warning.Olaf Hering
hv_kvp_daemon.c: In function 'main': hv_kvp_daemon.c:1441:8: warning: ignoring return value of 'daemon', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-02Tools: hv: fix send/recv buffer allocationOlaf Hering
hv_kvp_daemon fails to start in current openSuSE 13.1 snapshots because the kvp_send_buffer is too small to hold cn_msg+hv_kvp_msg, the very first sendmsg returns with EFAULT. In addition it fixes the Network info tab in Windows Server 2012R2 in SLES11. Adjust the code in kvp and vss daemon to allocate the needed buffers at runtime. To keep the code simple, the buffer_len includes also the nlmsghdr, although only the recv_buffer needs this extra space. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-29Merge 3.11-rc3 into char-misc-next.Greg Kroah-Hartman
This resolves a merge issue with: drivers/misc/mei/init.c Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-26tools: hv: Check return value of setsockopt callTomas Hozza
Check return value of setsockopt call and if it fails print error to the system log and exit with non-zero value. Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-26tools: hv: Check return value of poll callTomas Hozza
Check return value of poll call and if it fails print error to the system log. If errno is EINVAL then exit with non-zero value otherwise continue the while loop and call poll again. Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-26tools: hv: Improve error logging in VSS daemon.Tomas Hozza
Use errno and strerror() when logging errors to provide more information. Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-17Tools: hv: KVP: Fix a bug in IPV6 subnet enumerationK. Y. Srinivasan
Each subnet string needs to be separated with a semicolon. Fix this bug. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-17tools: hv: Improve error logging in KVP daemon.Tomas Hozza
Use errno and strerror() when logging errors to provide more information. Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-03tools: hv: Fix file descriptor leaksTomas Hozza
Close "fd" file descriptor when is goes out of scope so it does not leak. Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-03tools: hv: Check retrun value of strchr callTomas Hozza
Check return value of strchr call and dereference it only if it is not NULL. Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-03tools: hv: Check return value of poll callTomas Hozza
Check return value of poll call and if it fails print error to the system log. If errno is EINVAL then exit with non-zero value otherwise continue the while loop and call poll again. Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-03tools: hv: Check return value of setsockopt callTomas Hozza
Check return value of setsockopt call and if it fails print error to the system log and exit with non-zero value. Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-24Tools: hv: Fix a checkpatch warningK. Y. Srinivasan
Fix a checkpatch warning. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-24tools: hv: skip iso9660 mounts in hv_vss_daemonOlaf Hering
fsreeze does not work for iso9660 filesystems. A ENOSUPP may be caught in the freeze case, but the subsequent thaw call would fail and leads to a false error. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-24tools: hv: use FIFREEZE/FITHAW in hv_vss_daemonOlaf Hering
As suggested by Paolo Bonzini, use ioctl instead of calling fsfreeze. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-24tools: hv: use getmntent in hv_vss_daemonOlaf Hering
As suggested by Paolo Bonzini, use getmntent instead of parsing output of mount(1). Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-24Tools: hv: Fix a checkpatch warningK. Y. Srinivasan
Fix a checkpatch warning. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-24tools: hv: fix checks for origin of netlink message in hv_vss_daemonOlaf Hering
Similar to what commit 95a69adab9acfc3981c504737a2b6578e4d846ef ("tools: hv: Netlink source address validation allows DoS") does in hv_kvp_daemon, improve checks for origin of netlink connector message. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-24Tools: hv: fix warnings in hv_vss_daemonOlaf Hering
This change fixes a few compile errors: hv_vss_daemon.c:64:15: warning: unknown escape sequence '\/' hv_vss_daemon.c:64:15: warning: unknown escape sequence '\/' hv_vss_daemon.c: In function 'vss_operate': hv_vss_daemon.c:66: warning: 'return' with no value, in function returning non-void hv_vss_daemon.c: In function 'main': hv_vss_daemon.c:130: warning: ignoring return value of 'daemon', declared with attribute warn_unused_result hv_vss_daemon.c: In function 'vss_operate': hv_vss_daemon.c:47: warning: 'fs_op' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-03-15Drivers: hv: Add a new driver to support host initiated backupK. Y. Srinivasan
This driver supports host initiated backup of the guest. On Windows guests, the host can generate application consistent backups using the Windows VSS framework. On Linux, we ensure that the backup will be file system consistent. This driver allows the host to initiate a "Freeze" operation on all the mounted file systems in the guest. Once the mounted file systems in the guest are frozen, the host snapshots the guest's file systems. Once this is done, the guest's file systems are "thawed". This driver has a user-level component (daemon) that invokes the appropriate operation on all the mounted file systems in response to the requests from the host. The duration for which the guest is frozen is very short - a few seconds. During this interval, the diff disk is comitted. In this version of the patch I have addressed the feedback from Olaf Herring. Also, some of the connector related issues have been fixed. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>